5 Reasons Why Mentoring Is Important In Business
When starting in business you can feel isolated and overwhelmed so you must get a mentor, here are 5 reasons why mentoring is important.
Hi Trish Davies, here, personal branding expert, coach and mentor to entrepreneurs and business owners. Throughout my life I have sought out professional people to help and guide me to achieve the success that I have. Sometimes the natural reaction to doing something new is to try and work it out on your own.
It can work but my experience is that direction takes longer due to the lack of experience, knowledge, and guidance. I feel what you must do is seek out people who have been there, done it and are wearing the t-shirt every day. These people are known as mentors and why mentoring is important is the subject for today’s post.
Why Mentoring Is Important In Business
It doesn’t matter what age you are as mentoring will have a positive and supportive impact on your life. Whenever you embark on something new, like starting a business, mentoring will help you reach your true potential.
Mentoring can provide you with a role model to look up to, a sounding board, a voice of reason and a true confidant. A mentor will provide you with the care and assurance that you need when facing day to day challenges. Your mentor will also help you with your personal growth along with improving your social and economic opportunities.
When you have a mentor, they will act as your sounding board and listen objectively to what you are saying. Then they will respond impartially, guide you on what you need to do even if that takes you beyond the barriers of your comfort zone. At the end of the day a mentor is there to help you reach your true potential and then take it further.
Lets look at some of the benefits you will experience by having a mentor in your life and your business.
Giving Your Expert Advice On Your New Business
I have mentioned sounding board on a couple of occasions already. Your mentor is the go-to person to ask questions and receive advice from. This is expert advice on what you must do and when you must do it.
It is only natural that you will ask opinions from your family and friends. The advice you get from them will be mixed to say the least. Some will be positive, some negative. Then some of that advice will be way off the mark because those people simply don’t know what they are talking about.
Your mentor will give you the correct advice every time and will make sure that you are asking the right questions. After all they have the experience, knowledge and expertise around business which can be extremely complicated. Especially if it is industry or niche specific. Once you have your mentor in place then this is where you go to get sound, accurate and impartial advice.
Part of that sounding board position a mentor has is giving you a place to vent your frustrations. You will be under a lot of stress at certain points in your business so you mentor can act like your pressure release valve.
Your mentor is someone who you trust, and venting is the first stage of the process to find a solution.
Mentors Have Their Own Perspective
In life you will have had challenges and will continue to face them in the future. When that happens, you tackle them in a way that you feel is right but in reality, could be wrong.
A mentor has their own perspectives that are based upon their experience and knowledge. They can see things in a different light to what you can because invariably they have been in your position.
This means that they have already got the answers and will guide you to reduce your learning curve. They understand how you are feeling and know how to act and think accordingly.
A Mentor Can Help Build Your Network
Business mentors are great resources that you can leverage. The reason is that they know lots of other professional people who can help you with your business. In some ways it is like having your personal yellow pages, a rolodex to help solve other business problems.
At the end of the day the more people you now will help you build your own network of trusted people. Like the saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”!
For example, if you are not comfortable with technology you may struggle to create your own website. Your mentor may know someone in their network who can help you create your website which leaves you to concentrate on other things.
The other side of the coin is that your mentor can also recommend you help other members of their network. Therefore, enhancing your profile and standing within the business community.
It Creates Long Lasting Relationships
This is where mentoring differs from coaching. When you hire a coach that person is solely task driven. This means they provide you with actionable steps for you to take to complete a specific task.
An example of this would be learning Facebook advertising. You realise you must learn how to place ads on Facebook for your business, so you hire someone experienced and proven in that field.
They will create a program for you to follow step by step. At the end of the program you will have learned and mastered Facebook ads. The relationship with that coach can be short term.
The relationship you have with your mentor is going to be long-term. They may still give you some tactical on strategic advice, which I will cover in a moment. Invariably what will happen with a mentor who guides and advices you is that the relationship lasts.
When you hit it off with your mentor it means that there is potential to collaborate for years to come.
Enables You To Learn Methods & Strategies
Your mentor comes from a place of success and that is based upon actions, methods, and strategies they have implemented. Your mentor will help you improve your business and technical skills where you need to.
They will also let you into the strategies that have made them become successful. This is gold dust for you and your business to grow and evolve.
The knock-on effect is that when you implement what your mentor advices you your confidence levels will soar. You become more productive, efficient, and business like.
My Own Mentoring Program
For the last 12 months I have developed my own mentoring program call Build Your AU. In my previous post I spoke about how I have created a brand new 9-week training program which I am about to launch. This brand-new program has evolved from the process that I have created over the last 12 months.
What I suggest you do is click here to read all about this exciting new program and watch the video below. Under the video will be a button that you can click to register your interest in joining the program.
I have shared with you why mentoring is important and why you should seek a mentor to help with your business. Also, I have given you details of my own mentoring program that I have created to help you get your business up and running. Click the button above to register your interest now!
Helping you build your authenticity, authority and audience.
Trish Davies
Build Your AU
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